David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 209

"Eden" published

My poem "Eden" has been published in "Literature Today" http://literaturetodayjournal.webs.com/issues

My poem "Betrayals" has been published

My poem "Betrayals" has been published on "The Write Place at the Write Time."

http://www.thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org/poetry.html

"Bad Dreams" published

My poem "Bad Dreams" is included in the inaugural issue of "The Birds We Piled Loosely"

http://birdspiledloosely.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/october-2014-issue/

Reading and Book Signing at Germanna Community College - Oct 16 Noon

Join me for a reading/book signing at Germanna's Fredericksburg Campus Bookstore October 16, 2014 at Noon 

http://www.germanna.edu/bookstore/

Poetry Reading at the Culpeper County Public Library - October 18, 11:00 am

I am honored to join with fellow poets and the Windmore Foundation writers for a Poetry Reading at the Culpeper County Public Library - October 18, 11:00 am

My interview with Award-winning poet Allan Peterson

Here is the Germanna Today TV episode with Allan Peterson, award-winning poet:

http://www.culpepermedia.org/video/gt_23-mp4/

The Wonderful Wizard is still pretty wonderful

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a classic I never got around to reading as a child. I skipped over children's books to comics and adult classics like "War and Peace." Now, as an adult, I find the tale enjoyable and gratifying to read, with little editorial comments sprinkled throughout. My favorite:

"'For,' they said 'there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man.' And, so far as they knew, they were quite right."

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Ann Stanford's Last Book

Dreaming the Garden by Ann Stanford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is Ann Stanford's last collection, and it shows her still vital and alive to words and images and the passion of the world. Stanford is another fine writer of the 20th Century that is relatively unknown and unread now---indeed a shame, since her poetry rewards the reader living with it for a while.

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Once upon a time, poetry mattered enough to get banned

Once upon a time, poetry mattered enough to get banned:

"Howl" - Allan Ginsburg

"Song of Myself" - Walt Whitman

About Poetry's Read a banned poem out loud.

Read---What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Stone

What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Stone
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ruth Stone's poetry is under appreciated---she stands as one of the more consistently excellent poets of the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Her clarity of language and imagery, her personally honest but not indulgently confessional subjects, and the starling quality of her poetry from across multiple decades all argue for her verse to be read.

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